Quality Creek, site 1 (facies 7): Turonian, Canada
collected by R. McCrea & C. Helm 2002
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
"large logs" | ||||||||||
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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"fish scales" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Ankylosauria indet.
Osborn 1923
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= Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
= cf. Naomichelys sp.
Hay 1908
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostreidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
Coordinates: | 55.2° North, 120.9° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 59.4° North, 77.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 976 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | current ripples,coarse calcareous sandstone | ||
Secondary lithology: | planar lamination mudstone | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: "millimetre- to centimetre-scale mud laminae separate decimetre-scale packages of rippled sandstone. In the lower 1.5 m of the sandstone, coarser material, including sideritized mudstone intraclasts, disarticulated oyster shells, and large logs are present." "coarse-grained sandstone held together by a calcium carbonate (CaCO3) cement" | |||
Environment: | interdistributary bay | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive | ||
Geology comments: "distributary channel" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,surface (float),surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
Collectors: | R. McCrea & C. Helm | Collection dates: | Jun 2002 |
Collection method comments: vertebrate fossils from a fallen sandstone block (Quality Block A or "Main Block") |
Metadata
Database number: | 63084 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-08-04 07:00:19 | Last modified: | 2022-10-27 09:57:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-04 07:00:19 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
73958. | R. T. McCrea and L. G. Buckley. 2004. Excavating British Columbia’s first dinosaurs and other palaeontological projects in the Tumbler Ridge area. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Eighth Annual Symposium 24-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
64040 | V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] | |
73951 | R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, A. G. Plint, P. J. Currie, J. W. Haggart, C. W. Helm, and S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus. In M. G. Lockley & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62:5-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
18154 | ETE | J. R. Rylaarsdam, B. L. Varban, A. G. Plint, L. G. Buckley, and R. T. McCrea. 2006. Middle Turonian dinosaur paleoenvironments in the Upper Cretaceous Kaskapau Formation, northeast British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43:631-652 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |